Lead AI Engineer - Build Production-Grade Agentic Systems

Profound People; Sydney; On-site; AUD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

ProFound People seeks a Lead AI Engineer to design and ship production-grade AI and agentic capabilities on our platform. This full-stack role emphasizes AI delivery over research, with opportunities to influence backend and occasional frontend work.

You will own the end-to-end lifecycle from design through deployment, including monitoring, edge-case handling, and retraining as usage evolves. Collaboration with data and platform engineers is essential to ensure data quality feeds AI

Qualifications

• Experience shipping production-grade AI systems.
• Strong collaboration with data and platform engineers.
• Awareness of end-to-end ML lifecycle stages.
• Willingness to contribute to backend and occasional frontend work.

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end lifecycle from design through deployment.
• Monitor for edge cases and retrain as usage evolves.
• Collaborate with data and platform engineers to ensure data quality feeds AI.
• Contribute to backend development and occasional frontend work as needed.

Job description

ProFound People seeks a Lead AI Engineer to design and ship production-grade AI and agentic capabilities on our platform. This full-stack role emphasizes AI delivery over research, with opportunities to influence backend and occasional frontend work.

You will own the end-to-end lifecycle from design through deployment, including monitoring, edge-case handling, and retraining as usage evolves. Collaboration with data and platform engineers is essential to ensure data quality feeds AI